On snowy days, the smell of horse manure becomes even more pungent. In a neighborhood like Knoll Street where middle- and lower-class civilians live, the security and sanitation conditions are at the same level. When Shade moved into this neighborhood, he saw the winter scenery near Regent's Park. The street scene immediately disappeared, and it seemed like a quagmire in a stinking ditch in winter, but this was the current situation of ordinary people's lives in the city.
The houses on Knoll Street are lined up in rows and close together, and the pipes on the peeling walls are tangled like long snakes. The density of residents here is extremely high. During the day on Wednesday, even though most of the men went out to work, there were many people running around. The children running around, or the women carrying the youngest son on their backs, holding the second son's hand, and walking with the eldest son, still make this place full of life.
Generally speaking, it is best to go to a nearby tavern to inquire about something. But Shade still considered the possibility that this was a trap by MI6, so he did not inquire directly. Instead, he walked around Knoll Street and touched Understand the nearby terrain and the direction of alley intersections.
At 10:20 in the morning, Shade was walking on the street when his wallet suddenly fell into the snow on the ground. He immediately picked it up and twisted a few coins scattered on the snow and put them back into the wallet. , then continued walking forward, and turned into an unnamed garbage alley not far away.
After Shade entered the alley, two young men squatting on the street, wearing gray flat hats and looking like they had not washed their faces for several days, looked at each other and followed the alley with a smile.
Even though heavy snow has covered the dirt in the alley, the fermented garbage still makes the smell here particularly unpleasant. The steam pipes close to the edge of the low wall are spitting white steam outwards, blowing only the light on the wall. Half of the wanted poster was left. The combination of the warm and humid vapor and the stench in the alley made even the exposed skin feel uncomfortable.
The two young men walked dozens of steps in the alley, but did not see Sha De who had just walked in. They looked at each other and were about to move forward when Sha De, holding a revolver, walked from the garbage pile not far ahead. Came out from behind.
The alley was filled with sunlight. The sunlight was not enough to melt the snow, but at least it allowed the two of them to clearly see the gun in Shade's hand:
"I just wanted to ask a few questions."
Shade said, then added:
"I will kill anyone who dares to leave."
In fact, he definitely won't shoot.
The two young men subconsciously raised their hands:
"Sir, please ask."
Idle young people are not uncommon in this era. If such people do not enter factories and use their own flesh and blood to create wealth for factory owners, then there is a high probability that they will join local dynamic social groups.
They are all Shad needs:
"You live around here?"
"Yes."
The slightly taller young man said, desperately trying to lean behind his companion:
"We've lived around here since we were kids."
"You don't have to be afraid of me. I'm actually a private detective. Yes, the one with a gun license. I'm looking for a woman."
Shade looked at the two young men he pointed at one by one. Their body expressions and expressions were not disguised. They were indeed people living nearby:
"I'm about thirty years old and about the same height as you."
He pointed to the short man:
"Flaxen hair, curly hair, no glasses, probably moved here between 1851 and 1853."
The reason why the time is set within two years is because Shade does not believe that the other party has returned to Tobesk for many years, and MI6 has not discovered it:
"She has an appearance that is not particularly typical of the Kasenlik people. The woman lived in Kasenlik for a period of time, but she is also very fluent in the Tobesk language."
The royal family of Kasenlik would not hire a maid who looked obviously northern.
"She once wore a brown buttoned lady's coat. It didn't look particularly old."
This is what Princess Margaret was wearing when she saw the figure who looked like a maid.
The tall young man and the short young man looked at each other, and finally the tall young man spoke:
"You are talking about Mrs. Lageson, Miss Brown, Mrs. Wood, and Ms. Lena."
He named four people in one breath, and then hesitantly provided two more names.
After all, there are too many residents here. Even though the neighborhood relations in this era are closer than those of outsiders, Shade cannot expect to get answers at once from two idle social youths.
But the six names and information he got were also clues. These six ladies all lived on this street. Shade planned to check them one by one before lunch. If he found nothing, he would go to Miss Carina's manor for lunch.
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The first person he found was Mrs. Lageson. Although she was only thirty years old, she was already the mother of five children.
Mr. Ragson is a miner in the west mine of the city and is away from home all year round. When Shade saw Mrs. Ragson, she was helping people wash clothes. She thought that Shade also came to entrust laundry, and she was shaking the baby next to the basin.
cradle, while enthusiastically asking Shade if he was a neighbor who lived nearby.
This woman was not Shade's target.
The second person Shade found was Ms. Laina. This woman had a very unhappy marriage. After the divorce, she lived nearby with her female friend. The two opened an accounting firm on this street together.
It specializes in helping poor people living nearby calculate taxes, or helping small shop owners handle annual accounts.
Of course, this woman is not Shade's target.
The third person Shade planned to find was Miss Bella Brown, who rented at No. 15 Noel Street, above Brown's Bookstore. The owner of the bookstore was her uncle, Mr. Brown, and although this lady was unmarried, she was already married.
Got engaged, maybe moving off this street soon.
Romance bar free reading
It is not very strange that there is a bookstore in a neighborhood like Knoll Street where the middle- and lower-class poor live. This second-hand bookstore is marked on Detective Sparrow's map. With a special password, you can buy it from the owner of the second-hand bookstore, Mr. Brown.
to illegally assembled firearms.
The map left by Detective Sparrow only marked the black market for firearms. After all, it was normal for private detectives to know this kind of place. But when Shade entered the bookstore, he guessed that perhaps more than just firearms were sold here.
The second-hand bookstore is densely packed with shelves, and the counter is right at the door, ensuring that no one will steal any books. The store is very warm, but probably because of the lack of ventilation in winter, there is a smell of paper between the bookshelves.
The smell of corruption.
Miss Bella Brown was not in the bookstore at this time. It was the gray-haired Mr. Brown who was looking after the store. But just now Shade asked about it when he was buying a scarf in the coat shop next door. Miss Brown just went out to get the scarf that someone else borrowed.
The books he left would be back in twenty minutes at most, so he planned to wait in the used bookstore.
Just as he bought a nice-looking scarf, he thought he might buy some books from a used bookstore to fill his bookshelf.
When Shade came in, Mr. Brown looked at his clothes and didn't ask any questions, letting him wander in the bookstore. Shade shuttled between the rows of bookshelves, scanning the shelves with his eyes and pulling out a book from time to time.
Check.
He quickly fell in love with a book called "Tobesk's Secret", which is an illegally printed book about the urban legend of Tobesk. When he pulled it out and opened it, he found that the content was indeed illegally printed, but it had nothing to do with the book cover.
, one of those illegal color books.
This made Shade think for a while that this place had other commercial functions besides selling firearms. Fortunately, after pulling out several other books, the contents inside were all normal. It seemed that he had just been unlucky and picked up the wrong book.
In addition to Shade, there were several other customers in the used bookstore. Shade continued walking along the passage between the bookshelves, and thought about preparing end-of-year gifts for his friends.
Turning the corner of the bookshelf, he looked up and saw a familiar person. For a moment, Shade couldn't believe that he had met Sir Regins Plischar here.
This middle-aged nobleman from the South still wore a hat and leather gloves on his hands even when he was indoors. He was reading an old book with yellowed pages between the bookshelves.
He heard footsteps and looked up to see Shade:
"Mr. Hamilton?"
The two had established a good relationship at the Reading Salon and when Princess Margaret visited the college. They met unexpectedly in the city and started chatting with each other.
Of course, Shade came here for the detective mission, and Sir Prisha claimed that he liked buying books in this kind of second-hand bookstore.
The Miss Bella Brown that Shade is looking for, Sir Pricia must have never seen before. After all, she is only a distant relative of the royal family, so Shade is not worried that the purpose of her coming here is the same as his. And today's unexpected encounter
, but it made him interested in talking to Jazz:
"Sir, you like books very much?"
"Of course, at my home in Willondale, I even deliberately opened up the wall between the guest room and the study room and built a very large library for myself."
Sir Prisha introduced with a smile, and then looked at the old books around him:
"Knowledge is really fascinating. Even if it is a boring book, as long as you take it in your hand and turn the first page, you will definitely find fun."
"Yes, I also like reading. Although reading can't let me know how to make money, it can at least remind me how to avoid being defrauded of my savings."
Compared to Jazz's "nobleness", the content of what Shade talked about was relatively vulgar, but Jazz still smiled and nodded:
"That's true. That's why I always recommend people to read more. Knowledge is power and wisdom is wealth. Only by reading more can you change your destiny."
He said with emotion:
"Knight, I heard what you said at the banquet at Lakeview Manor. I also agree with the views of popularizing education to improve the quality of the population. I really hope more people can know this truth. After all, our greatest advantage as human beings is
, isn’t that what it is?”
He nodded his head, then said goodbye to Shade with the book in his hand, and left the used bookstore.
"Looks like he's a nice guy."
Shade groaned in his heart, but he did not forget what the devil once said about Jazz's unknown past.
"At least not someone like Darkness...Library search."
Using "the book that Kings Prisha just read" as the search object, three books flew into Shade's hands. One was on the bookshelf next to him, and the other two flew in from a little further away.
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The titles of the three books are the collection of essays "The Moon of Tobesk", an astronomy notebook that was left behind by someone unknown and contained terminology that Shade did not understand, and the "Catalogue of the Tobesk Collection" which looks like an auction house brochure.
"He is also looking for the yellow moon that the bard wants?"
Shade mumbled and flipped through the three books, then found that some pages had been torn out in all three books.
It is normal for books in used bookstores to have missing pages, but after checking, Shade found that the tear marks on the missing pages were quite new. It could even be said that they happened within a few minutes:
"Isn't this...not good?"
Shade frowned and looked in the direction Sir Prisha left:
"Although everyone has some quirks, but..."
He put the three books back and tried to give a new image to Lakins Prisha:
"We still need to continue investigating. Human beings are still too complicated after all."
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